You can count to ten of think about the deepest water. Meditation work a little bit but when insomnia decides to come there’s nothing that can put it to “rest”. Nothing healthy at least. Xanax can work miracles but there’s a big price to pay in memory loss. For a strange reason there are some people that are not designed to sleep specially at night. I developed a theory where in old days some folks had to watch the group against animals and enemies in the forest. So they don’t sleep at night. It got in our genes. I know what most will say. It’s a matter of habit. But it’s true that i already didn’t sleep as a baby and i kept not sleeping as a kid and on and on. So i’m not sure if there’s any psychological thing involved. Maybe it’s just the same old biorithm. I’m not sure if it’s because i spent most of my life not sleeping so i developed the habit or if it’s enough reason for being awake at night but that’s the time of the day where i’m more productive creatively speaking. I write my posts at night. I paint at night. I work at night. No phones ringing and no people. I love people but not when i’m doing things where i don’t want to be interrupted. During the day you spend the day trying to concentrate and the phone and the mobile and the intercom and the Nextel and the bell ringing and the emailing and the text messaging and the msning and the facebooking and the twitting and the knocking on the door and the talking and laughing and the talking about last night and on and on and on…well… they don’t let you do your thing. You do a percentage of anything you are fully capable of doing when no one is around. On top of that it takes three times the effort to move around in the city. When i look at my window at night everybody is asleep and it’s all really quiet. I really love that. Anything can happen but nothing really happens so the mind is free to wonder and to fool around. But if you enjoy the idea beware: It’s a lot more time with yourself than you are used to have. You may start thinking too much and that is no good. Specially if you are planning to sleep ever again.

To hell with Facebook and Twitter, take the phone off the hook, turn messengers off, put on a little night music, I am ready to play now!

Its a bummer when sleep just wont come. My first ever online poker win came at 4am one night when I couldn’t sleep. I am so inactive, I just dont burn enough calories to get tired. When I do try and do something, I sleep for 10-12 hours now, feast or famine you could say.

Empathise there with you my friend, but if you work better at night, well, every cloud has its silver lining.

Totaly truth!! It has its silver lining… The important thing is to try not to exagerate changing day for night once for all… Thank you for the great comment and believe me when o say that i should be more active too!!!

I know how that feels. I sometimes suffer from bouts of sleeplessness. But the best thing to do is to shut everything down, switch of the lights, clear your mind and just close your eyes. You’ll usually drift off to snoozeland eventually 🙂

I can relate…
I always feel much more awake (and creative) at night then I do during the day. And I often can’t fall asleep because I can’t stop myself from thinking about all the projects I’d like to be working on. Then, the next day, I’m too tired to do much of anything. It’s a vicious cycle!
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Spilled Ink and Giulas, I completely understand. I’m a night person to the core. The night is my time to get things done. I’ve been trying to readjust my clock to become a “day person,” but that forces me to lose sleep because I can’t get to bed early enough.

If i could i would go to bed everyday around 4am but many times i gotta go to bed around midnight or so because of my wife. She wakes up early. As a matter of fact the time to go to bed issue was in all my relations. At least i go to sleep earlier these times (by earliers i mean going to bed at midnight and reading until 2am starting to sleep around 2:30am)

I’ve been there Mr. It was probably my 20’s and part of my 30’s. But then you learn how to deal with it and start doing these projects. It’s a great thing to plan and dream about doing stuff. But you gotta do it. It will come in time.

You may have something there, “in old days some folks had to watch the group against animals and enemies in the forest,” Why not as there is much that is habit but also feels inherited.

I can also relate to your statement about “When i look at my window at night everybody is asleep and it’s all really quiet. I really love that. Anything can happen but nothing really happens so the mind is free to wonder and to fool around.”

If I’m going to work out then I want to do it as the sky is just changing color, the sun is just waking and at that hour there are so few up and about, the park feels very private, like it’s mine. All mine!

I always enjoyed working at night when it was quiet. Once I had kids it didn’t work. Now I take melantonin when I can’t sleep. It’s sold over the counter in the states and doesn’t have any side effects (for me).

I like your theory. One of my friends has one about babies born during the winter (less light) so they have different sleeping patterns. Her theory would be correct for me. 🙂